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Perennial Flower Strips Can Be a Cost‐Effective Tool for Pest Suppression in Orchards
Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Flower strips can provide many economic benefits in commercial orchards, including reducing crop damage by a problematic pest, rosy apple aphid (Dysaphis plantaginea [Passerini]). To explore the financial costs and benefits of this effect, we developed a bio‐economic model to compare the establishment and opportunity costs of perennial ...
Charlotte Howard +4 more
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The EU Regulation on Deforestation‐free Products (EUDR), which aims to minimize the contribution of the EU to global deforestation, is facing challenges in its implementation. One such challenge lies in applying the required due diligence provisions in producer countries such as Peru, where the impacts of the EUDR may be significant.
Jimena Solar +2 more
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Transcriptional and physio-chemical responses of Tectona grandis L. triggered by teak defoliator
Plant StressTectona grandis (L) is a popular timber species cultivated in the Indian sub-continent and other countries because of its economic significance. However, the lack of quality planting material with special reference to defoliator herbivory is a major ...
YN Venkatesh +8 more
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Factors influencing adoption of agroforestry among smallholder farmers in Zambia [PDF]
Agroforestry technologies have been extensively researched and introduced to smallholder farmers in Zambia for over two decades. Despite the research and extension effort over this period, not many farmers have adopted these technologies.
Bigsby, Hugh R. +2 more
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Animal Conservation, EarlyView.Agricultural intensification is responsible for biodiversity decline, but high‐quality field margins may mitigate these effects. We studied reptile species richness in a farming landscape in western France with a focus on hedgerows structure and density.
Olivier Lourdais +6 more
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Agricultural and Forest Entomology, EarlyView.Abstract This review provides a synthesis of the available knowledge on Carmenta foraseminis, an emerging cocoa pest in northern South America. This moth was first described in 1995 in Panama, and its proliferation across the Amazon basin is currently threatening the production of cocoa in the region and may endanger the sector's sustainability. Hence,
Mónica Arias +9 more
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Silvopastoral agroforestry - an option to support sustainable grassland intensification [PDF]
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McAdam, J.H.
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Cossid moths (Lepidoptera: Cossidae) as pests of woody plants – A review
Agricultural and Forest Entomology, EarlyView.Abstract The Cossidae is a worldwide family of macro‐moths popularly known as carpenter moths due to the larval habit of boring in the wood of living plants. This review compiles current knowledge on the characteristics, diversity and bionomy of cossid moths as well as the damage they cause on woody plants.
Thanapol Choochuen, Jiří Foit
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